Thursday, August 28, 2008

Just wanted to put a little "shout out" to ElderBilly on his 21st birthday! We are so proud ofyou Sean and the great job you are doing onyour mission in Honduras! We love you and areso excited to come visit you soon in Hondurasand bring you home. Here are just a fewpictures of great times!

Skippy's first day of college. We always take thefirst day of school picture in the same exact place for21 years. He is attending NPC - the local juniorcollege for a semester prior to leaving on a missionearly next year.His school transporationThis is Skippy's "first day of Show Low publicschools." We joked about taking this picture becausethis is where he was on the first day ofpublic school! This was the first time in 23 yearsthat I did not send a child to the Show LowSchools! It was a pretty strange feeling.

Bentley Kenneth Holladay arrived in Provo, Utahon 08-08-08! What a cool birthday! Kennyhad been hoping that he would be born on thisdate. He was obedient from the start - showingup at 10:23 pm and weighing in at 8lb 7oz (couldn'tthat nurse have just put her finger on the scale!)He is a beautiful baby.Proud parents Kenneth and Leslie HolladayPapa, Grammi and "Bucky"Uncle Skippy loves his baby nephew. Checkout the missionary part on the baby's hairAll of the baby's grandparents sharing in thefun! We all traveled on the same day, wentdifferent directions completely (it is about 600 miles)and ended up in the hospital parking lot at thevery same time. We couldn't have planned thatif we had tried! We all went up together and sawour wonderful grandson at the same time.

Friday, August 1, 2008

Tim and Cara came to visit last weekend for theirten year high school reunion. Where does thetime go? Here are the kids all dressed cute tobe shown off at the picnic. Skip & Jud had broughtthe beach chairs inside to play wii and the kidsnow think they are part of our furniture!Konnor spilled the popcorn on the floor, so heand Skippy cleaned it up by eating it

Dad got a call out the other night at 10pm - therewas no ride-along so it was a perfect timefor Skip to go along. Dad suited him up in acompany shirt and he busted out the pilot hat.They got some pictures together - it was agreat bonding time - even though they gothome at 3 am!

Boy, talk about a project! We decided to update DQwith computer cash registers. Well - this required aback server computer that needed an office. We didn'thave an office at DQ so we decided we would build one in theupstairs. So the guy that put on the upstairs wasshort and the rafters were at 6 ft - tough on Chris and tallpeople! So in all good conscience Chris could not buildan office in a place with 6 ft ceilings so he said he hadto first raise the ceiling - so they did. Then they builtthe office, next we decided to tear out the woodenshelving and replace it with sturdy metal shelvingand a sweet can rack to hold all the cans. Whew!They worked hard - thanks to B and Jenn and Skippywho helped Dad and Mom pull this project off!The roof going upThe before shot of the short roof andwooden shelvingAdditional before shot

Chris & Terri

Our Missionary

The Boys

Grandbabies (May 2010)

Grandbabies (Sept 2008)

Holladay's

We love being grandparents and getting to see our children grow. Chris is currently working for a new air ambulance company he helped to start called Coast to Coast Air Ambulance and finally has fulfilled his dream of being a pilot full-time. Terri is still making dilly bars at DQ - over 22 years! We are empty nesters as Skippy is finishing up serving a mission in North Carolina.